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Contraception
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Wisconsin Proposal Would Expand Medicaid Birth Control Coverage
Dunn County News: Election could affect state birth control services, By David Wahlberg: Family planning advocates hope Wisconsin’s bid to make permanent its expanded birth control services under Medicaid is…
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Nicholas Kristof on the Important Role of Contraceptive Funding in Reducing Global Poverty
NY Times (Op-Ed Column): Birth Control Over Baldness, by Nicholas D. Kristof: Over the next decade, some astonishing new technologies will spread to fight global poverty. They’re called contraceptives.This is…
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Filipino President, Aquino, III Supports Couples Right to Choose Option of Birth Control
Philippine Daily Inquirer: Aquino bucks Church, backs birth control, By Norman Bordadora & Jocelyn R. Uy:CBCP ‘hurt more than disappointed’ President Benigno Aquino III served notice he may give assistance…
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Beyaz to Help Prevent Birth Defects if The Pill Fails
NPR: A Birth Control Pill For Those Times Birth Control Fails, by Richard Knox: When it comes to oral contraceptives, Bayer Healthcare is nothing if not creative. Now the drugmaker…
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New Requirement of Insurance Coverage Without Co-Pay for Preventive Care Not Likely to Include Contraception Until 2013
Slate Magazine (Double X): Yes, You Will Keep Paying for Birth Control, by Sharon Lerner: Finally, the day has come when all new insurance plans are required to cover preventive…
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Studies Yield Conflicting Information On Connection Between Birth Control Pills and Breast Cancer
Slate: The Pill-Breast Cancer Connection, by Florence Williams: Last summer, in a studyof more than 50,000 African-American women, Boston Universityepidemiologist Lynn Rosenberg found a 65 percent increase in aparticularly aggressive…
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U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Letter Asks HHS Not to Include Birth Control Pills or Sterilization as “Preventive Services” in New Health Care Regs
Modern Healthcare: Bishops stress birth-control stance to HHS, by Joe Carlson: Catholic hospitals do not offer contraceptives or sterilizations totheir patients as a matter of conscience, but American bishops say…
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Researchers Look at the Potential Link Between Use of Birth Control and Breast Cancer
Slate Magazine (Double X): The Pill-Breast Cancer Connection, by Florence Williams:Does it exist? Last summer, in a study of more than 50,000 African-American women, Boston University epidemiologist Lynn Rosenberg found…
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Lessons on Contraception Missing from Most Sex Ed Classes
SFGate: Sex ed for teens: birth control is still off-limits for some, by Erin Allday: Nearlyevery American teenager has had sex ed classes by the time he or sheleaves high…
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Remembering Margaret Sanger on Her Birthday
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: On This Day in History: September 14 Birth Control Crusader Born, by Vernon Parker: Margaret (Higgins) Sanger was born on September 14, 1879, the sixth of11 children,…